Scheduled Colloquia (2010─2011)

Colloquia are usually held in Room 250, Parker Hall from 4:00 to 4:50 pm on Fridays;
refreshments in Room 244 at 3:30 pm.

A. J. W. Hilton (The University of Reading, (England))
Title: Analogues of and problems concerning Ryser's and Cruse's theorems about
        completing partial latin squares
Abstract available here

Faculty Host: Pete Johnson

March 25, 2011
Please Note: Time--3:00 PM; Place--Parker 250

Speaker: John Burns (Virginia Tech)
Title: Infinite Dimensional Riccati Equations:
        Computational Issues and Applications
Abstract available here

Faculty Host: A. J. Meir

February 18, 2011

Dongbin Xiu (Purdue University)
Title: Uncertainty Analysis for Complex Systems:
        Algorithms Beyond Polynomial Chaos
Abstract unavailable

December 9, 2010

Joint Math/Physics Colloquium 

Boris Alexeev (Moscow Fine Chemical Technology Institute)
Title: Antigravitation, dark energy and dark matter explained, and other examples of applications of non-local physics framework
Abstract available here

Faculty Hosts: Frank Uhlig and Joe Perez

December 7, 2010

John Mallet-Partet (Brown University)
Title: Recent progress in delay-differential equations
Abstract available here

Faculty Host: Wenxian Shen

 
November 19, 2010

Peter Qian (University of Wisconsin, Madison) 
Title: Designs for complex simulations, cross-validation and stochastic optimization
Abstract available here 

Faculty Host: Peng Zeng

 
November 11, 2010

Tim Olson (University of Florida)
Title: The precursors of Brillouin and Summerfeld:
The dominant singular vectors in an absorbing media
Abstract available here

Faculty Hosts: Pete Johnson and Richard Zalik

October 29, 2010

Speaker: Logan Hoehn (University of Toronto/University of Alabama at Birmingham)
Title: A non-chainable plane continuum with span zero
Abstract available here

Faculty Host: Piotr Minc